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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, my amendments in this group are also of a probing nature, but I say first how much I support the amendments tabled by my noble friend Lady Coffey. I had the privilege of…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have had a number of conversations with developers over the course of the past month or two. Their universal conclusion is that Part 3 makes it much harder to build…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I understand what the Minister said about the quality criteria I put in the amendment. I included them for discussion. However, I do not understand her willingness to…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have Amendment 253 in this group. I very much hope that the Minister will be able to give me some comfort as to the Government’s intention towards the private…15 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, if I may I will start by being grumpy in the direction of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, and others. This is Committee, and it is inappropriate to say, “Before the…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his comprehensive reply. The common theme between the amendments is empowering officials to do their job well. I will pick up an…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI also felt that the Minister’s reply to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, was good, but I would be grateful if he could send him and us a link to the guidance that he referred to so…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I very much hope that, when considering how to implement what I hope will be agreement with these amendments, the Government pay close attention to the need to gather…11 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy noble friend of course runs a good academy trust. Where things are not so good, you can get a lot of variability between the schools that append themselves to a trust. So this…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s answer on my amendment. Can she add to the many helpful things that she has said a commitment to drift the amendments proposed by the…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I quite agree with my noble friend. The current system does not create a lot of problems because most schools are teams. If you really need a particular skill, so you…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillFollowing what the noble Baroness, Lady Wolf, has just said, I want to speak to my Amendment 432 in this group and say that it is worth going that bit further than Amendment 434,…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I support the thrust of both my noble friend’s amendments. The Department for Education has an important role to play in helping local authorities drive up the quality…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am very grateful to the Minister for that extensive reply. To pick up on some of the issues in the debate, I entirely understand what the noble Baronesses, Lady Morris of…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillYes, but we still want responsive, interested and active people there—and that is not what you get in my experience. Secondly, I hope that inspection will look at the connection…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, in moving this amendment, I will also speak to my other amendments in this group. This amendment concerns the practice of local authorities placing children in…10 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI very much support the amendments in this group. I am lucky enough to live in Eastbourne, where Mary Ann Gilbert started a branch of the allotment movement in 1830. I think we…09 Sept 2025